Discomfort in sitting has never been a concern for technology. Oki Electric Industry Co Ltd and Okamura Corp seems to have sympathized with numerous backache patients, who owe the problem to their uncomfortable chairs in the office, including some robotic tech to their latest gear. The “Leopard” is a concept model for an office chair from the company, which works on the technologies used in Oki’s “Robot Leg” – a leg-shaped robot. Robot Leg works on the principle of muscle and bone structures of the hip and the thigh area, facilitating the artificial limb to absorb the activity pressure just naturally.
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Imbibing the same traits that of the Robot Leg, the Leopard chair comfortably corresponds to the human sitting ways, without any motor to assist. When empty the chair tilts itself forward, making it easy for the person to sit. On occupancy the chair significantly sinks, with the back moving to the most comfortable position for the occupant. And when the person stands up, the seating surface follows the occupant’s movement making it a lot effortless for him to rise.
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Oki Ltd has used reinforced resin for the seating and the back rest, the material is used keeping in mind its strength and insignificant weight properties, but could be replaced with another taking in consideration the high price. The company intends to continue with the development process – whereby we may see these chairs roll out in the market sometime by May 2009.
Via: TechOn
